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THE annual meeting of the Prehistoric Society of East Anglia was held on March 23 at the rooms of the Geological Society, the members of the Prehistoric Society being the guests of the Royal Anthropological Institute. The chair was taken by Prof. J. E. Marr, who delivered his presidential address. His subject was "The Relationship of the Various Periods of Prehistoric Man to the Great Ice Age."He regarded the existence of Pliocene man in East Anglia as proved, and ajso accepted Mr. Reid Moir's views that the "Mid-Glacial"implements of Ipswich were of Lower Palaeolithic age, and that Lower Mousterian implements were incorporated in the Chalky Boulder Clay. He brought forward confirmatory evidence of this from the drainage area of the Great Ouse basin, and regarded the Chelles-Archeul period as intermediate between the two glaciations marked by the'Cromer Till and Chalky Boulder Clay respectively. After the formation of the latter clay there seemed to be a recession of ice followed by a re-advance in Magdalenian times, but, as O. Hoist argues, this need not indicate an inter-glacial period. If there was a Pliocene glaciation in this country, the evidence seems to point to two succeeding glaciations in Pleistocene times, the last being marked by a period of ice-recession in Aurignac-Solutre times, in which case Lower Palaeolithic man lived between the second and third glaciations, and the men of the periods' from Mousterian to Magdalenian inclusive during the period of the third glaciation, with its interval of temporary, ice-retreat. The questions of earth movements and diversions of river drainage during the periods under consideration were briefly considered.
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Prehistoric Man and Racial Characters. Nature 105, 153 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/105153a0
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